Putin Critic
Faces New
Charges

MOSCOW—Russian authorities formally charged anti-Kremlin campaigner Alexei Navalny and his brother with theft and money laundering on Tuesday, keeping up the pressure on one of President Vladimir Putin's fiercest critics despite sparing him a half decade in prison in a separate case this month.

Russia's Investigative Committee charged Mr. Navalny and his brother, former post-office executive Oleg Navalny, with stealing more than 26 million rubles ($815,000) from the Russian unit of French cosmetics company Yves Rocher....